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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13
EDUCATIONAL.
St.JOhn's Academv

THE MILITARY SCHOOL 1T ALEXANDRIA.
Begins its 55th year on Monday, Sept. 9Th.
There are three courses of study-Classical
Scientific and Commercial; in the Iast-named
Typewriting and Phonograhy will be taught.
The school has fine apparatus and an excellent
library, as well as improved arms, full camp
cquipage, &c, aud goes into camp every summer
Send for Catalogue.
RICHARD i. CARNE, AM,
aug1 cotscp15 Principal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

DlsQUE FIGURES, Laws Flower Pots, Vases in
ID China and Glass; also "Thc Fairy Lamp"
which is having such run in other Cities and
which has never been offered for sale here before.
dec13 E. ]. MILLER, SON g. CO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

w rylard or Virginia, already stocked, to work
on shares Can give all the reference needed.
Five working hands in family. Address FARM
EE." SO north Capitol street. Washington, d. G.
aur4 I'm
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13
EDUCATIONAL.
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE,


VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE,
Lexington, Va.
The 10th session of this well-known State In
stitution will open on the Sth of September prox-
imo. 1t provides system Of thorough military
training, distinctive academic course of instruc-
tion and technical instruction in the several
branches of applied science which enables grad.
uate in the academic school to attain to profess
s;onal degree Bachelor of Science or Civil Eng
ineer.
These advantages are secured on terms not ex-
ceeding $50 per month, including clothing in ad-
dition to the ordinary collegiate necessaries. For
Catalogue apply to
Gen. FRANCIS H. SMITH,
jy23 wtsepSsat Superintendent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

CHURCH SERVICES, &c, TO MORROW
Christ ChUrch.-NO service.
ST. Paais hnrch.-Service5 at IL a. m.
py Rev J. G. Koon.
GTace Church.-Seryices at II a. m: by
NJ W " Parker and at p. N. by Rev.
! Q kaou
s.. Mpy's C1,.rch.-NIass at : aud 10 a.
In. aud sermon, by Rev. Father Quinn,
aad Vespers at : p. IN.
First Presbyteriaa Nmch.-service at II
IN by Rev J. NJ Nonrse.
Second Presbyterian Church.-services at
II m aud p m by Rev. G. l.. Wolfe, of
Baptisi camca.-seryices al II a m. and
S p m. by R-v NJ. Mercer
Trinity Meth Epjs. Church Services at
II q. N, and S =. N. by Rev Il. I. Bishop.
Meth Epi% Church, SOah-No service.
Af.fh. Prot. Chrch.-Servces ut p. IN.
by Rev. J. NJ. Nuurse.
(frrmoa Lutheran Cauch.-Services at II
a. II by Rev. J. a. schwoy.
Iomg Mems Christian AsSOcjaiioa.-Pray-
er meeting at the rooms at 400 p. m. Aims
House At 800 p. m. and Jail at p. VI.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

hoe EXCURsIONISTS-Extra Clipped Beef
[ Sardines Canned Salmon and Lobster, Potted
Meats, Crackers, Cakes, Limo Juice, Oranges,
Lemons, &c, &c, for sale by
ie2S &c. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

PERsoNAL.-A NJ, JOS. Hopkins, OF Hagers-
town. Nd. is visiting friends in this city
Mr.. Il Decton will leave for Norfolk
t., uisht and from there will make west
en- TIP 20 be gone for sometime.
Mis4es Fannie and Charlie King are visit
"a. friends at HAymarket.
Rev. DE- Lindsay, of Georgetown, who
,,,- recently Invited to become the rector OF
,hti-r Chutcb, Hartford, Conn, has also re-
..,ived call from St Johns Church, in
Bridgeport.
Mr.. Robert Portncr returned on Monday
Goul a four mcntn's trip to Europe and was
leadered by his family aud immediate
friends. in the evening, in celebration of his
safe return a beautiful display of fireworks
His residences and the carriage ways leading
thereto were beautifully Illuminated. A
general invitation was extended to the pub
lie to view the disnlay and quite e large
number accepted. -MmaSSas Gazette.
Mr.. Robert Neville, of Fauquer, was
thrown from his buggy in front OF the War
renlon Springs hotel few days $50 aud
bad = shoulder dslocated
Messrs Martin Greene, Wm. Schuler and
John Picrpoint have gone to Atlantic City.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

yITANTED-BoARDERs in a pleasantly-lo-
w Gated house, convenient to Alexandria and
Washington +. r. depot and Postoflice. Terms
moderate. References given if desired. TABLE
BOARD at low rates Address NJ. l., box .,
GAZETTE Office Alexandria, Va aug13 cost
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

BALTIMORE, Aug 13.-Virginia Is consolidated
461s; past-duo coupons =; new b 6i lo-Aos
= bid to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-13

WROUGHT SPIKES FOR BRIDGE and coat
w BUILDERS at So King, corner of Royal
street. An assortment of sizes for sale cheap to
close ont
scp27 ]. T. CREIGHTON & SON.
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Advertised letters, not called for within thirty
days will be CONT o the dead letter Office.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
Girls Who Whistle.

The latest fad is whistlng, if reports
from the grain city may be credited, and
whstling by those very girls who year
ago picked the banjo and said it was the
ambition of their lives TO do it we'll. But
young girls are queer cattle. Whistling
can not be acquired by every one, and
those who are able to quicker up their
lips and look pretty are miles ahead of
the banjo players. Somebody VINO does
not know much about music makes bold
to say that.a Chicago glrl who has been
studying for two years now whistles
operas, sonatas and waltzes by the score.
This really seems impossible, considering
what score is, but if the damsel can
whistle all the parts in the score of one
opera she is chromatic wonderl The
next thing we shall hear Bach's tugues,
or the "Parsifaln music, whistled by
those young ladies, who have sufficient
musical cheek to make them to keep from
laughing in the middle of bar.-Boston
Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25

In Layfayette place Stewards house still
stands, though put out of cOuntenance by
the elegance of its new neighbors, and
converted into commissariat office.
There had the honor in Stewards time to
be some days guest and the sight of the
house calls up throng of memories in
my mind. i see Seward himself coming
in after his long days labor in the minis
try of foreign affairs. 1t was fortunate
for him, considering the load he had upon
his shoulders, that he could leave not only
work but care behind him in his office.
At his own table he was the liveliest and
pleasantest of companions, full of anec-
dote. and with only the slightest touch in
his conversational style of the senate and
the platform. When he left diplomatic
cares behind he did not bring diplomatic
reserve away, and any one who had been
treacherous enough to retail some of the
things which he said might have made
mischief: but the rules of social conf
dence had not been 80 entirely set aside by
purveyors for public curiosity in those
days. He was accused of being too fond of
wine, but though he was not teetotaler,
| saw nothing like excess. He was a
master of striking phrases like his re-
markable "irrepressibe conflict" Some
times he would make jokes which were a
little too elaborate and capable OF m.sin-
depreciation. Goodwin Smith in Macmil
lnn's.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
Thackeray's American Lecture Tour.

Thackeray was an improvident wretch,
and his expenses nearly always exceeded
his income. His avowei purpose in COM
:ug to America the second time, in 1856,
was, to use his own expression, "to lay up
pot OF money" for his two daughters,
and yet it shows the impulsiveness and
the boyisnness of the man that he re-
turned to England in the midst of pros
porous engagement and with half his lect-
ure dates untitled. Before he had visited
various cities in the west and in Penn
sylvania, while in his room one night in
his hotel in New York, he happened to
pick up newspaper, and there he saw
announced that certain steamer would
sail for Liverpool next morning. A tit OF
inconsistencies overcame him. Although
he was about retiring and was partially
Invested of his apparel, he rang for his
servant, packed his baggage that very
night, and without saying a word to one
of his friends, sailed for home the next
morning.
Even Mr.. Fields, who was certainly his
closest Anne rican friend, had no intima-
ton of his sudden departure until several
days afterward, when the pilot who had
directed the vessel on its way to the ocean
handed him card on which these words
! Ncic NiloIeu' bOou-pye, ioiuo, Soou-oy Vi
Mrs. Fields. God bless everybody, says
w. M. t." This Abandonment of his en-
gagements meant for him a large pecu
mary loss, and yet he afterward told Mr.
Fields in London that if John Jacob AS
tor had offered him half his fortune tC
permit that part ocular steamer to sal
without him he would have declined the
impossible favor" and gone aboard He
never had another chance to fill those
broken engagements. A few years after
ward, ON a Christmas morning, his
mother found him dead in bed. -Phila
delphia News.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
Evils of Modern SOcIeIY.

Many of the evils of modern society arise
from misconcepCion of individual rights
No man has permanent foothold b, re-
his is only tempory occupancy. "If," as
DIR. Griswold says, men could realize
that the earth is a large omnibus, making
It's annual rounds, that its inhabitants
are but way passengers. getting on and
taking seats left by others, without as
signment, and riding diverse periods and
di tances; getting off and yielding their
places 10 others without having acquired
permanent rights in the equipage; if they
could realiz, that the stars of heaven
wink at them when they come aboard,
and watch the futures of their earthly
destiny, and the angels of heaven await
and attend their alighting, a disposition
would soon engender in universal human
ity, that would facilitate the happy ad
justment of earth life and fill it with un-
bounded felicity. Boston Budget.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
The Boston Science of NTind-Cure.

have recently become convert to the
Boston science of mind-cure. l was con-
verified TO it by my wife, who has studied
the subject earnestly and is firm be-
lever in the power of the will as healing
and conquering influence. She is herself
living illustration of the efficacy of the
will not only in curing but in preventing
ailments. For a long time she has been
subject to neuralgia attacks, and found no
relief until the mind-cure was suggested
to her. She did not go to any school or
professor of the science. but merely stud
led and read the subject and evolved a
process which consists, believe, in
merely placing the strength of her will
against the approach of the ailment She
is woman of great will power, and when
she makes of her mind that she don't want
anything to do with neuralgia, neuralgia
has got to stay away, and it does.-J. X.
Emmett in Globe-Democrat
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
Longevity 81 Opera Singers.

Somebody has been airing his views
apropos of the longevity of opera singers
who do not use stimulants, and cites the
case of Titiens, "who was over so when
she died" Leaving out of the question
whether one can consider "over 80" old for
even a prima donna, may remark that
that great lyric light of the operate stage
only lived to see her 42d year. Medical
men assert that cigarette smoking does
more harm to the voice than even the con-
sumption in moderation of the bottled
stout with which some artists are cred
tied, or the moderate use of wine in 9TH
ers. All the same, some of our greatest
singers smoke necessarily. Campanini,
during his engagement at the New York
Academy of Music, INDUCED in cigarettes
between the acts, and laughed at the idea
that they would injure him or his voice as
one of the medical fallacies of the day
News Letter
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
RENEwEp HrR AGE TEN YEARS.

That life may be prolonged is the desire
of every invalid, even with suffering, but
this is not all Compound Oxygen does, as
the letters of many patients testify. A
Lawrence (Mass.) lady writes:
My old troubles are all slowly leaving
me. have renewed my age ten years or
more"
A farmer writes from Lockesburg, Ark
81 am feeling batter and clearer of pain
than for years. can pillow all day"
A lady writes from North Waterford,
Me-:
my mother, although 81 years old, fee s
as well as she did when 40 years old. She
walks around the house spryly and does
considerable work. She is living, she
says, new life."
If you think that you or any of your
friends might be benefited by the use OF
this treatment, you can decide after an ex
animation of record of it's work in o
multitude of cases. A pamphletof nearly
two hundred pages will be mailed free tc
any applicant 6y Drs. STARKEY & PALEN
1929 Arch street, Phila.
Orders for the compound Oxygen Home
Treatment will be filled by III. A. Mathews
6l5 Powell Street, San Francisco.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
The Sailors and the Hen.

Sailors are usually credited with good
deal of superstition. The following story
from the Eastport Standard is a case in
point. The steamer New Brunswick of
the International line recently had a sue
cession of hard voyages. Head winds and
storms were encountered on the trips be-
tween St. John and Boston. She was due
in Eastport on Friday, but did not reach
that port until Sunday noon. The sailors
and some of the officers at last concluded
that there was Jonah on board and be-
gan to look for the cause of the steamers
i'll luck.
1t seems that some time ago the
steamers freight included a coop of hens.
During the passage, one of the hens got
out and as the owner could not get her
back into the coop without danger of let
ting others escape, he gave the hen to one
of the deck hands. who kept her in box
on the main deck. There is a superstition
among the sailors that if a hen is carried
under tub, bead down, the vessel will
encounter head winds as long as the hen
is aboard. Concluding that a hen in box
was just as i'll an omen as hen in tub
the crew began to mutter and the deck
hand was compelled to put his hen ashore.
Since that the steamer has had favorable
weather and the crew are happy.-Boston
Traveller.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
Wages of the English Hangman.

The English hangman, Berry by name,
tall, respectable-looking man, with the
appearance of a mehcanic. He is a shoe
maker by trade, but does not work now,
as the executioner is well paid. He gets $50
a head, or, when there are more than one,
$50 for the first, SIS for the second, and SIS
for the third, with all expenses paid.
The first essenti al is nerve, and Berry has
nerve. Binns, who preceded him, was a
braggart, and liked publicity. He would
smoke his pipe outside half an hour before
an execution, and drink, and had an active
tongue. Now the executioner is obliged
to sleep in the Jail the night before a
hanging. Calcraft, who was famous for
so many years, was also shoemaker, and
like Berry, quiet, retiring man.--ChicagC
Herald
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
Supplies for Railroads in India.

What class of railway sleepers are used
in India and South American Are any
metal sleepers used in these countries,
asks writer of The London Mechanical
World, and they answer: In India, where
wood is expensive and for other reasons,
rectangular blocks of cast iron have been
used as sleepers; also light cast iron (hol-
low chairs with tie rods. The chairs, etc,
are, or were few years ago, largely ex-
ported from Glasgow to India, and are
suitable for light traffic over sandy soil on
narrow gauges, more especially such as
the Punjaub, Scinde, or other large rail
ways which have three feet three inches
gauge, the Indian government having
adopted it in 1873, after having for twenty
two years had experience with five foot
siX-inch gauge. Similar cast-iron chairs
are regularly exported to South America,
viz, from Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, etc.
Boston Budget
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
A VALUABLE MEDICAL TREATISE.

The edition for 1887 of the sterling Medical
Annual. known as Hostetter's Almanac, is now
ready, and may be obtained. free Of cost, OF
druggists and general country dealer in all
parts of the United States. Mexico. and in
deed in every civilized portion of the Western
Hemisphere. This Almanac has been issued
regularly at the commencement of every year
for over one-fifth of century. 1t combines
with the soundest practical advice for the pre-
servation and restoration OF health, large
amount of interesting and amusing light read
ing and the calendar, astronomical calculations
chronological items, &C.. are prepared with
great care, and will be found entirely accurate
The issue of Hostetters Almanac for 1887 will
probably be the largest edition of medical
work ever published in any country. The pro
prietors, Messrs. Hostetter & Co., Pittsburgh
Pa, on receipt of u two cent stamp, will for
ward a copy by mail to any person who cannot
procure one In his neighborhood.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
The wan Paper Peril Again.

may be able to throw little light on
the question. Formerly greens were the
only arsenical colors, but within the last
ten years an extensive use has been made
by paper stainers of a compound of arsenic
and glycerine. That enters now into
almost all colors, and especially into the
most delicate tinted papers. A richness
and softness is secured by this compound
that defies competition. Tinted book
papers of the most delicate tints and OF
the highest cost owe their richness and
delicacy of tint to the glycerine and arsenic
solution. Hence the Importance of put
ting wall papers and tinted papers under
proper NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." in The
Advertiser.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25

Through the liberality of a few citizens
interested IN natural his DRY the Chicago
Academy of Sciences has just come into
possession of about a ton of mammoth
bones found in the eastern part of Wash
.ngton territory. The remains are those
of four different animals, and the largest
are in such an excellent state of preserva-
lion that DIR. Velie says it can be set up in
The museum in its full natural hight,
which is some twelve OF fourteen feet.
its curved tusks are ten feet long. This
mammoth is of the same species as those
whose remains have been found in Siberia
II is not absolutely certain that any of
this species have been found east of the
Rocky mountains, though mastodons have
been found in abundance. When mounted
it will be the first specimen of the kind in
the United States.-Chicago Tribune.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
Doctor at the Dinner Table,

At the dinner table: "Come, doctor, you
are very skillful. l will give you the honor
of carving" with pleasure, madam"
Immediately the doctor begins his task.
He is very absent minded, and when he
has finally made deep cut in the leg OF
mutton, ne stops, takes roll of linen
and some lint out of his pocket, and care
fully bandages the wound. Then, after
regarding it critically, he remarks with
professional gravity, while the guests are
stupefied with establishments: There, with
rest and good care, there is nothing to
fear. New York Graphic.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
The Clever Duchess of Edinburgh.

"The duchess of Edinburgh is said to be
more than ordinarily clever and Guilt
waited" writes Adam Badeau In his papers
on aristocracy in England. "From those
admitted to her intimate society have
heard that she is better informed in poll
tics than many women in Europe in any
sphere. She reads the newspapers of all
counties, including those of America; she
is acquainted with the position of parties
in the United States, knows the names
and history of our public men, and can
discuss the measures important here with
greater facility than many Of our own
countrywomen who think themselves we'll
informed. IL this is so with regard to
democratic America, of course it is so with
reference to European states and courts. "
Exchange
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
How London People sp end sunday.

Sunday is a dull day in this teeming
world of London. AT this time of the
year the business portion-known as the
city-is almost deserted ON the Sabbath,
but the railroad stations are crowded
morning and evening by the eXcursionists
rushing out of town for fresh air and re-
turning weary and berry to prepare for
the morrow's toll. 1t is estimated that
there are 1000. 900 of people in London WHO
never go to church. Fully 100000 leave
IN the cheap trains for the suburban
pleasure resorts between 8 and 8 a. N.
Fifty thousand more crowd the steamboats,
plying ON the Thames between Kew and
Gravesend.
The angling clubs. numbering several
thousand members march with full para
phernalia to the various depots-or sta
lions as they are called here-attracted by
he cheap day tickets issued by the com
panies to points on the Thames the Lea,
The Colne, the Wey and other accessible
streams. They generally take their fami-
les with them, and the wife, carrying the
lunch basket, is a constant companion of
the man with his fishing pole and "black-
ing box" which serves the double purpose
of seat and a receptacle for tackle and
bait A full million of Londoners spend
the day in eating, bringing and gossip
with their friends in their dingy, i'll
lighted homes. Cor Baltimore
American
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
On Board a Japanese Cruiser.

Electricity plays an important part on
board the Naniwa Kan, a newly con
structed cruiser built on the Tyne for the
japanese government. The two engine
rooms are illuminated with Swan mean
descent electro lights, and the coal
hunks, stokeholes and captains saloon are
similarly lighted. On the bridge of the
vessel there is circular coming tower,
from which the CAPITA can himself steer
the ship by electricity. At either end OF
the bridge are two electric search lights
ofsgreat power and brilliancy, and about
midway between these are steering APP
paratuS for the officer on watch and an
engine-room telegraph. Forward and att
on each broadside are tc-Dedo projecting
stations. An electric bt,v.ery is employed
tc fire the torpedo at the right moment -
Boston Transcript
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-25
A Queer Marriage Ceremony.

A curious marriage ceremony tool
place the other day in Paris, viii CHI ex
cited much curiosity and interest in wild
beast circles The bride was the daugh
ter of a wild beast tanner, the groom tn
son of another gentleman in the sam
profession. The guests were all tanner
and menagerie braves, On the table wer
several stuffed tlion cubs; behind tn,
new.y welded couple stood a spiendi,
group of four stuffed tigers, which Pezo
said had cost him as much as if they h.
been of marble-about $4,000 francs; an,
panels representing the denizens of the
forest and desert were hung on the walls
The menu was in keeping with all TN
tugroundings.-Pa Letter.